Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

I need to admit here that this book wasn’t the best classical book Ive read in my time, but it wasn’t the worst either. I have pretty mixed feelings about this book on one side I liked this book but on the second side I didn’t like this book. So this book might be a mixed review between me liking this book and me not liking this book. So lets get into this review and lets see how this review turns out to be in the end.

The plot was kind of nice in this book because it is about Hester which sort of is a outcast of the society and I do love when a book has its main character being a outcast or a loner. I personally think that this book paints the perfect picture of a a strict society and how they don’t work because every human being is different in their own way.

However I think that this book is way too long that what it needed to be. I think that the plot which this book has would have done a better job if it was a 50 pages long rather than being over 250 pages long which of course this book is. 

There are many times the book uses a lot of words to describe things which could have been described in a sentence or two instead of dedicating a page or two to describe the thing. Which made me very bored at times because how this book would stretch itself out without an reason.

The writing style in this book has also the very old English writing style which at times annoyed me because I needed to google certain words to understand what they meant. When that happens to me, it usually means that I wont give the book a high rating.

The characters in this book are all over the place for me personally at least. On one side I liked the characters but on the other side I feel like the author was trying too hard to make us think that the main character was a witch even though the author didn’t give us a lot of evidence supporting that other than saying “trust me, the main character is a witch”.

Overall I wasn’t a big fan of this book but Im glad I read this book because I was able to cross out another classic book from my reading list.

I Give This Book 3 / 5